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Jonathan Miller introduces the television premiere of his acclaimed Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's epic drama.
One day in summer 1912, at the Tyrone family home in New London, Connecticut, a tragedy unfolds as two generations bare their souls to each other. Father, an ageing popular actor, is pathologically parsimonious. Mother has a morphine problem. One son is fond of the bottle, the younger one is sick with tuberculosis.
O'Neill's famous "play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood" is given an excitingly fresh interpretation in Miller's production, which played on Broadway during the 1985/6 season and subsequently came to the West End to sell-out houses. Executive producers Michael Brandon, Emanuel Azenberg
Directed by Jonathan Miller